The expert predicts a 40% increase in tourist flow to Crimea after the opening of the Kerch Bridge
With the start of operation of the Kerch Bridge in 2019, the tourist flow to Crimea will increase to 40%.
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Such a forecast published by the news agency “New Day” with reference to the assessment of the chairman of the Association of Health Tourism, Elena Trubnikova, according to whom, the number of tourists coming to the peninsula could increase to at least 8 million people: “If we compare with 2016, when Crimea was visited by 5,6 million vacationers, the growth will be just over 40%.”
According to the expert, simplification of logistics schemes for delivering goods to the peninsula after the opening of the transport crossing through the Kerch Strait will help solve some of the current problems. For example, build new modern hotels, health resorts and modernize existing ones.
“The bridge will allow transporting up to 13 million tons of cargo annually. Thus, the share of transportation costs in the structure of the cost of building materials, equipment, medicines, and food products will be significantly reduced. All these factors are already increasing the investment attractiveness of Crimea for potential investors in the tourism industry, including resort complex facilities,” the publication quotes Trubnikova.
At the same time, the publication points to the fact that even the expert’s optimistic forecasts do not correspond to the clearly inflated expectations of the Crimean authorities, counting on 10 million people by 2020. The publication says that the authorities of the peninsula “are having difficulty coping even with the existing tourist flow: there is not enough space on the beaches, there are huge queues at cafes and canteens, transport does not go often enough and is always crowded, museums and palaces are crowded, many sanatoriums have not been renovated from Soviet times and do not meet modern vacationers’ ideas about service and comfort.”
Will the Crimean authorities be able to quickly take advantage of the emerging opportunities, even if the preparation of the peninsula’s beaches for the coming summer season has failed miserably? – asks the news agency “New Day”.
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